Transmigration into a Book: My Lord, Your Wife Has Taken Another Concubine for You

When Chu Yunxuan and Le An heard that their grandson's surname was Li, they didn't really react. After all, they weren't old-fashioned people, and they didn't lack grandsons with the surnames Chu or Wei to carry on their bloodline.

After Chu Shifu and Princess Zhaojia received the imperial decree bestowing their surnames upon them, their relationship became even more intense.

They immediately decided not to have any more children. Although having only one child was a bit risky, scarcity makes things valuable. After all, if they only had this one child, their grandchildren would simply take the surname Li.

This wealth and prosperity may continue for several generations.

Chu Shifu thought that if chaos came a few generations later, they, being surnamed Li, might be able to gain the upper hand in the righteous cause.

Who knows what other opportunities might arise? Everyone has a wild dream!

In the days that followed, the emperor would hold Li Qingyun in his arms during the morning court session, reviewing official documents, while Li Qingyun slept beside him.

The emperor was quite pleased with his little grandson's clinginess, but he also had a problem: he could no longer visit the inner palace.

You can't exactly hold a child while you're having sex with a beautiful woman, can you?

Therefore, whenever the emperor wanted to enter the harem, he could only set his sights on Chu Yunxuan.

The little guy Li Qingyun ended up being cared for by the Emperor for a few days and by Chu Yunxuan for a few days.

He was either carried to court by the emperor or carried to the Ministry of Revenue by Chu Yunxuan.

In no time, everyone in Cangming knew that the Emperor doted on the son born to Princess Zhaojia. This son was also the apple of Marquis Wenxuan's eye, and he would even take him with him when he went to work at the Ministry of Revenue.

With Li Qingyun being so favored, no one in the harem, except the Empress, could sit still.

Even the Empress noticed the Emperor's fondness for one of his grandchildren and was wondering whether she should urge the Crown Prince to quickly take a wife and have children so that he could secure the position of the legitimate grandson.

But the empress's wisdom lay in the fact that she knew she wasn't the one in the most hurry, so she didn't have to do anything herself.

Her son was the crown prince and also the eldest son. The other princes below him were restless and wanted to marry him, but they couldn't get past her son.

So for a time, the concubines in the palace who still had young children, knowing that the emperor liked children, took the initiative to find various opportunities to send their children to the emperor.

Li Qingyun wasn't really a troublesome child. As long as he was around the Emperor, he was fine. He could play and sleep alone without being a nuisance.

But the younger princes were truly unruly children, and the emperor's meager paternal love couldn't sustain them for long.

As for those who are eager to get married, that's unrealistic, since the eldest prince and the crown prince are not married yet!

There were also some fools who wanted to take a risky step and take two concubines to have a son born out of wedlock. When the emperor heard about this, he didn't want to pay any attention to these idiots.

The reason the Emperor doted on Li Qingyun so much was not only because he was the Emperor's first legitimate grandchild, but also because, although he bestowed the surname Li upon the child, he was not the same as a true imperial grandson and had no right to inherit the throne.

His doting on this child is actually a way of consolidating the position of the Crown Prince's faction. Since he has already established the Crown Prince, he will not easily change his mind.

Besides, Li Qingyun's parents didn't directly want him to climb the social ladder; Chu Shifu and Zhao Jia were after Wenxuan Hou.

It was Marquis Wenxuan who wanted the child to be close to him and wanted to bring wealth and status to the child. It had nothing to do with their biological parents, so of course he could disregard it.

After all, which official in the court wouldn't want to curry favor with him?

But the princes are different. They not only want wealth and status, but also his throne, and in critical moments, they want his life. That's a huge difference.

To some extent, the more the concubines and princes in the harem acted, the more the emperor favored Li Qingyun.

In some ways, the emperor was the most rebellious person in the world.

When Li Qingyun was a little over two years old, the emperor's three sons had all gotten married. Of course, the crown prince was forced to get married quickly because his younger brothers were in a hurry.

But in reality, the Empress and the Crown Prince were also quite anxious. With Li Qingyun as an example, they also wanted to secure the position of the eldest grandson of the legitimate wife.

Whether it's useful or not, we can't let other princes benefit from this.

However, the Empress and the Crown Prince were aware that while they needed to act quickly, they couldn't rush things, as the Emperor might not necessarily favor those illegitimate sons of low birth.

Besides, such behavior would be too unseemly and might not even be pleasing, so the Crown Prince simply focused on working hard with his principal wife. As for concubines, the Crown Prince suggested that they wait two years before entering the palace.

With the Crown Prince doing this, and comparing it to his two younger brothers who got married only a little later, not only did he quickly have a principal wife and concubines in his household, but he also had quite a few concubines.

As a result, the Empress and the Crown Prince's image in the Emperor's eyes improved significantly.

Li Qingyun, who had been raised by the Emperor and Chu Yunxuan until he was over two years old, was granted the title of Prince Kangde by imperial decree after the Crown Prince's marriage.

After all, Princess Zhaojia's son was originally eligible to be granted the title of Prince of the Second Rank. The Emperor felt that the child he had raised deserved a princely title, so he granted it to him as he pleased.

As for the Chu family's power, the Emperor felt that since Chu Yunxuan had retired and the rest of them no longer bore the surname Chu, things would be fine once the older generation was gone.

This grandson surnamed Li was raised by him personally, and the emperor felt that this grandson must have been closer to him than the Chu family.

Over the past two years, Chu Yunxuan has gradually and completely retired. Chu Shihui still only has two sons. He felt sorry for his wife who had given birth to two children and had to take care of them while managing the large mansion. So he discussed with his wife that they should not have any more children for the time being.

Their priority should be raising their two sons well, that's all that matters.

Wei Yize's household had many children: two legitimate sons, two illegitimate sons, and three illegitimate daughters. With so many children, Wei Yize's love for them became very diluted.

At present, Wei Yichuan's household only has his legal wife Zhou Yanbing, but she has already given birth to three daughters and does not want to have any more.

However, among the four Wei brothers, only Wei Yichuan had no son, which put Zhou Yanbing under immense pressure.

She was originally the daughter of a military general, raised with swords and spears. When she gave birth to her first daughter, Wei Yichuan wanted to take a concubine, which enraged her and led to a fight with him.

In the end, she won. Her mother-in-law and the others did not interfere in her relationship with Wei Yichuan. So, the result of her winning was that Wei Yichuan and she reached a consensus.

As long as she can give birth to a son, Wei Yichuan will not take a concubine.

But after she gave birth to three daughters in a row, although the elders didn't say anything and the rewards were still the same, she felt that her pressure had reached its limit.

She felt relieved after giving birth to her second daughter, and when she gave birth to her third daughter, she quickly asked the people around her to find a suitable person to take as a concubine for Wei Yichuan.

But at this time, Zhou Yanbing was thinking about many things, such as finding a woman with a clean family background, easy to control, and without ambition to enter the mansion.

Because of her many demands, even after she became pregnant with her fourth child, the concubine she had chosen had not yet entered the mansion.

During this period, Chu Yunheng was assigned to a post near Cangming, serving as a prefect of the fourth rank.